Luke McCown's injury was a strange one for onlookers. He didn't collapse in a heap and there wasn't an obvious moment if you were watching, when his ACL tore.

But McCown knew exactly what happened when it happened. He'd been through it before, after all. He felt his knee pop Sunday afternoon in San Diego and even before he hit the ground, McCown had a sickening sense of deja vu.

I spoke with McCown about the whole situation today. You really have to feel for the guy after how well he's been playing. He was two plays away from escaping without a torn ACL as his injury came right at the end of Sunday's game. Here's what he had to say today.

Q: Did you know right away?

Luke McCown: Yeah. It felt the same.

Q: What did it feel like?

Luke McCown: It's not painful. It just, you just feel a popping sensation. It's really weird. That ligament is what keeps the inside of your knee from opening up. Generally when it goes, the outside of your knee will hit together. You can feel that. A lot of times you hear it. I don't know how you put it into words, but it's a one of a kind feeling. As soon as I planted my leg, it went. I kind of had the thought before I even hit the ground of, not again. There's no reason why. There's no answers for why it happened, why it happened a second time. It's not any deficiency in the knee. It's just a freak thing. It happens. It's disappointing. But the Lord gives and the lord takes away. I'll always stand behind the fact that he's got a plan for me, he's got a plan for my life and I'll follow that plan. If that means I've got to endure another ACL, I'll do it and I'll come back from it.

Q:When did you hurt it the last time?

LM: In OTAs in the last practice, it was the last period of the last practice in OTAs in 2006. It was a little more violent cut that I was making at that point. It just went then. The encouraging thing was I was on the field and practicing 90 days after surgery without any limitations. I went through training camp, started the season on PUP and by week 7 was activated. I was full speed at practice with no limitations. I tend to be a fast healer and I look forward to that again.

Q: Did you have a cadaver replacement?

LM: No, I used my own patella. I used a patella graft and from what I understand, that's still a possibility, although I don't think I'm going to use the patella from the same knee for obvious reasons. And I'm probably not going to use it from the other knee also for obvious reasons. I want to cut on the good knee. I'm leaning towards the cadaver.

Q: Is there a difference in strength with one or the other? Aaron said the patella replacement made the knee stronger.

LM: That tends to be stronger right away. The neat thing that your body does over time is it turns it into an ACL, whatever the ligament that you use, whatever way you decide to reconstruct it, over time, your body turns it from a patella to an ACL. Over time it all becomes the same. But over a span of how quick you want to get back, the patella is the best way you can go. You can use a patella cadaver.

Q: You were just getting in the flow of the offense. This must have been especially disappointing.

LM: Yeah it was. To play in the preseason the way I played and to play in the fourth quarter the way I was playing, it is. It's eerily similar to the first time in Tampa. I had gone through my first full year after being traded in Tampa. I worked my way into a backup position behind Chris Simms and was into my second year in the system. Was comfortable, had a great OTAs, had a great spring, and the last bit of it, tear my ACL. Again kind of learning last year, had been in the system for a year, had a really good training camp and preseason, and here it goes again.